Computer and developer-board maker Pine64 has started shipping the first edition of its much-anticipated – at least in the open-source community – PinePhone, after pre-orders sold out. Dubbed "Brave ...

Hundreds of millions are happy with Android smartphones and iPhones. But there are some users who want the maximum possible control over their smartphones. For those people, Purism now has the funding ...

A new report from ABI Research suggests that shipments of Linux-enabled smartphones will outstrip growth of the entire smartphone market in 2010, with linux-based handsets comprising 33% of the market ...

The PinePhone is a $150 smartphone designed to run free and open source software. For the most part that probably means users will run Linux-based operating systems that have been optimized for mobile ...

Purism, Pine64, and Necuno Solutions are working on Linux-based smartphones. Conversely, none of those companies is marketing an actual Linux-based smartphone. Notably, Necuno Solutions and KDE are ...

Linux users keeping tabs on the smartphone market may have long been wishing for an honest to goodness non-Android Linux phone. That almost came to be with Ubuntu Touch but Canonical sadly saw no ...

The demonstration video has been published to YouTube showing the PinePhone Linux smartphone running regular Linux desktop applications in the form of Firefox, Gimp, Libreoffice and Quaternion. The ...

Most modern smartphones ship with Android or iOS, but there’s also a small, but growing number of phones designed to run Linux-based operating systems. And it’s likely that no phone has been more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Pine64 is on a roll. The company recently launched its $199 ...

I was a huge, huge fan of Maemo – a Debian-based Linux distro focused on phones, such as the amazing Nokia N900 (the old Linux-powered one with a keyboard… you know, the one that Nokia killed off ...

Not only do you get root, but you can use this ‘phone’ as a desktop too. Just don’t expect much from the camera. Is the widespread dominance of Android and iOS phones proof of the final victory of ...

Linux handset fanatics have a new software toy: a security engine added to the Linux smartphone operating system from a la Mobile. The new code uses AES encryption and digital certificates to protect ...